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When you launch your business and start your journey into the world of professional word nerding, positioning for success and communicating your value to your ideal clients is mandatory. If you’re anything like me, though, the exhilaration of setting out to make a living doing what you love best will trump a lot of rational…

Most people imagine negotiations as winner take all scenarios where the taker is the meanest wolf on Wall Street. While hard negotiators exist, the reality of the business world is that most negotiations are very far from what Hollywood would have us think. It starts with the basic fact that if you’ve made it as…

Language service providers come in all sorts of shapes and sizes ranging from the super professionally PRO with capital letters to the carefree creative types. They speak different languages. They have dissimilar interests. And they don’t always agree on the fundamentals of translation. But whether they know it or not, they have one thing in…

My favorite nerd joke goes like this: There are two types of people in the world. 1) Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data. [End of joke.] Pricing language services requires a lot of extrapolation. There isn’t much data out there, is there? And what pricing information is out there doesn’t always seem reliable. There’s talk,…

Localization and internationalization are growing at a rate of knots. The translation industry as a whole is growing at a rate of 26% a year, and localization plays a significant part in that. Recent research, carried out by the Common Sense Advisory, shows that 72% of people spend the vast majority of their time, if…

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